Our ancestral physiological phenotype: An adaptation for hypoxia tolerance and for endurance performance?

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1915-1920

  Hochachka, Peter W ^a   Gunga, Hanns Christian ^b   Kirsch, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Altitude; Evolutionary physiology; Quechua; Sherpa

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; ENDURANCE; EVOLUTION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; OXYGEN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE;

MAMMALIA; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0032539713     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.4.1915     Document Type: Article

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